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ABSTRACT
Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques provides a concise and jargon-free guide to the thinking and practice of this exciting approach, which enables people to make changes in their lives quickly and effectively. It covers:
- The history and background to solution focused practice
- The philosophical underpinnings of the approach
- Techniques and practices
- Specific applications to work with children and adolescents, (including school-based work) families, and adults
- How to deal with difficult situations
- Organisational applications including supervision, coaching and leadership.
- Frequently asked questions
This book is an invaluable resource for all therapists and counsellors, whether in training or practice. It will also be essential for any professional whose job it is to help people make changes in their lives, and will therefore be of interest to social workers, probation officers, psychiatric staff, doctors, and teachers, as well as those working in organisations as coaches and managers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part 1 BACKGROUND
chapter 1|3 pages
What is Solution Focused Brief Therapy?
chapter 2|2 pages
The origins of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (1): Milton Erickson
chapter 5|2 pages
The Brief Family Therapy Center: the fi rst phase
chapter 6|2 pages
The Brief Family Therapy Center: the second phase
chapter 7|2 pages
Solution Focused Brief Therapy today
chapter 8|1 pages
Philosophical underpinnings: constructivism
chapter 10|2 pages
Assumptions in Solution Focused Brief Therapy
chapter 11|4 pages
The client–therapist relationship
chapter 12|2 pages
The evidence that Solution Focused Brief Therapy works
chapter 13|2 pages
How brief is brief'?
chapter 14|4 pages
Summary: the structure of solution focused sessions
part |2 pages
Part 2 FEATURES OF SOLUTION FOCUSED INTERVIEWING
chapter 15|1 pages
Ideas about therapeutic conversation
chapter 16|2 pages
Choosing the next question
chapter 17|3 pages
Acknowledgement and possibility
chapter 18|2 pages
Compliments
chapter 19|2 pages
Deciding who to meet with
part |2 pages
Part 3 GETTING STARTED
chapter 20|3 pages
Problem-free talk
chapter 21|2 pages
Identifying resources
chapter 23|2 pages
Constructive histories
chapter 24|3 pages
Pre-meeting change
part |2 pages
Part 4 ESTABLISHING A CONTRACT
chapter 25|2 pages
Finding out the client’s best hopes from the work
chapter 26|2 pages
The ‘contract’: a joint project
chapter 27|3 pages
The difference between outcome and process
chapter 28|2 pages
The ‘Great Instead’
chapter 29|2 pages
When the client’s hope is beyond the therapist’s remit
chapter 30|3 pages
When the client has been sent
chapter 31|2 pages
Building a contract with young people
chapter 32|2 pages
When the client says ‘don’t know’
chapter 33|3 pages
When the client’s hopes appear to be unrealistic
chapter 34|2 pages
What if there is a situation of risk?
chapter 35|3 pages
When the practitioner is a gatekeeper to a resource
chapter 36|2 pages
What if we fail to develop a joint project?
part |2 pages
Part 5 THE CLIENT’S PREFERRED FUTURE
chapter 37|2 pages
Preferred futures: the ‘Tomorrow Question’
chapter 38|1 pages
Distant futures
chapter 41|3 pages
Broadening and detailing
part |2 pages
Part 6 WHEN HAS IT ALREADY HAPPENED? INSTANCES OF SUCCESS
chapter 42|2 pages
Exceptions
chapter 43|2 pages
Instances of the future already happening
chapter 44|3 pages
Lists
chapter 45|1 pages
No instances, no exceptions
part |2 pages
Part 7 MEASURING PROGRESS: USING SCALE QUESTIONS
chapter 46|2 pages
Scale questions: the evaluation of progress
chapter 47|2 pages
Designating the ‘0’ on the scale
chapter 48|2 pages
Different scales
chapter 49|2 pages
Successes in the past
chapter 50|1 pages
What is good enough?
chapter 51|1 pages
Moving up the scale
chapter 52|2 pages
Signs or steps
chapter 53|2 pages
What if the client says they are at ‘0’?
chapter 54|2 pages
When the client’s rating seems unrealistic
part |2 pages
Part 8 COPING QUESTIONS: WHEN TIMES ARE TOUGH
chapter 55|2 pages
Handling diffi cult situations, including bereavement
chapter 56|2 pages
Stopping things from getting worse
part |2 pages
Part 9 ENDING SESSIONS
chapter 57|2 pages
Thinking pause
chapter 58|2 pages
Acknowledgement and appreciation
chapter 59|2 pages
Making suggestions
chapter 60|2 pages
Making the next appointment
part |2 pages
Part 10 CONDUCTING FOLLOW-UP SESSIONS
chapter 61|1 pages
What is better?
chapter 62|3 pages
Amplifying the progress made
chapter 63|2 pages
Strategy questions
chapter 64|2 pages
Identity questions
chapter 65|2 pages
When the client says things are the same
chapter 66|2 pages
When the client says things are worse
part |2 pages
Part 11 ENDING THE WORK
chapter 67|2 pages
Maintaining progress
chapter 68|2 pages
What if there is no progress?
part |2 pages
Part 12 ASSESSMENT AND SAFEGUARDING
chapter 69|2 pages
Assessment
chapter 70|2 pages
Safeguarding
part |2 pages
Part 13 CHILDREN, FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, AND GROUPWORK
chapter 71|2 pages
Children
chapter 72|2 pages
Adolescents
chapter 73|2 pages
Family work
chapter 74|1 pages
Scales in family work
chapter 75|3 pages
Couples work
chapter 76|2 pages
In the school
chapter 77|3 pages
Schools: individual work
chapter 78|2 pages
Schools: the WOWW project
chapter 79|3 pages
Groupwork
part |2 pages
Part 14 WORK WITH ADULTS
chapter 80|2 pages
Homelessness
chapter 81|2 pages
Alzheimer’s
chapter 82|2 pages
Learning diffi culties
chapter 83|2 pages
Substance misuse
chapter 84|2 pages
Mental health
chapter 85|4 pages
Trauma and abuse
part |2 pages
Part 15 SUPERVISION, COACHING, AND ORGANIZATIONAL APPLICATIONS
chapter 86|2 pages
Supervision
chapter 87|2 pages
Team supervision
chapter 88|2 pages
Coaching
chapter 89|3 pages
Mentoring
chapter 90|2 pages
Team coaching 224
chapter 91|3 pages
Leadership
part |2 pages
Part 16 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS